Sorry I didn't update twice last week! I didn't have power on Tuesday and Wednesday due to a storm. Thursday was Thanksgiving I was too busy rotating between sleeping and eating. Friday… I work retail, 'nuff said. Then one of my beloved cats passed away yesterday while I was editing this chapter. I'm so sorry! I will be more diligent with updates. Please accept my apologizes and these TWO chapters to make up for my bad form.
As December rolls along there is a bad snow storm that makes Killian beg Emma to stay the night. Because baby its cold outside…Fluff.
Emma and Killian cuddle underneath a blanket on the couch in Killian's room at Granny's. Snow gives Emma special kind of chills, first it always reminds her of her mother. Secondly, it reminds her of the Snow Queen, who they just defeated months ago. But it never failed to make her anxious that she was back. The couple turned the couch so they could watch the small town getting coated in snow, since Killian still would rather watch the world turn over watching "the bloody talking box." The snow is falling down slowly and it's one of those nights where it feels like you're living a snow globe. The thought of living in a snow globe makes Emma crack a giggle and break the comfortable silence.
"What's so funny love?" Killian asks pulling her closer on his lap.
Sighing and easing into the deeper cuddle Emma sighs, "I was just thinking how perfect this all looks and feels."
"Aye, that it does, lass. I've never felt more at home than right now."
"Killian, I really have to go the storm is getting worse…and my parents are only going to get more worried as the time passes." Emma says as she reluctantly scoots away from her pirate boyfriend.
"Love, its freezing out there…stay here let me keep you warm." Killian says pulling her back into him
"They're gonna worry about me…" Emma says standing up, trying to pull the temptation to stay from her body.
"But, it's so cold, you're gonna freeze." Killian says putting on his best pleading puppy dog face.
Emma knows the game he's playing, one of his favorites. "Do you really think David is gonna buy that one? I've survived hypothermia before." She said sauntering away in the best way she knows how, feeling Killian's ocean blue eyes drill into her back side.
"Emma darling, just one more drink…to keep you warm." He says licking his lips, the way he does, makes her weak and warmth spread throughout her whole body.
"What are people gonna think when they see me leaving Granny's early in the morning?" tracing her finger around the rim of the glass filled with rum. If he wanted to play Emma was going to play. She loved the little moments and games they played. He always had a way of making her feel like a flirty little teenager, missing the years that were taken from her.
"They're going to think what they've all been thinking is confirmed." Killian said smirking. Emma thought that he was right as much as they tried to keep their relationship to the people close to them, everyone in town knew their precious princess had fallen for the pirate. They went on dates in public; they always practiced the delicate art of PDA. But they did not go around telling people they were "courting" as Killian put it. Apparently everyone wanted them to publicly announce they were dating, per tradition. And that type of thing was nothing Emma wanted to be a part of.
"I guess that's true" Emma said breaking her train of thought. "Can't you just lend me a coat? It's not that far of a drive."
"Swan, are you going to make a man get on his hands and knees and beg?! It's cold outside and I want to give you warmth, allow me to warm you up in the right way." Killian said with a wink.
There it is Emma thought. The man couldn't be around Emma for more than a couple minutes without making an innuendo.
"I guess it is cold outside" Emma began to cercum to her boyfriend's begging.
"So cold..it's going to be up to your knees by the time you get together to leave."
"I…." Emma took one more look at her Killian, his sea blue eyes filled with want, he was really working his puppy dog face. "I guess…I'll call my mom"
Killian laughed in victory… "If you insist!"
Emma walked over by the window for cell service "Mom I'm going to stay at Granny's with Killian, the snow got worse than I thought. Travel will be easier in the morning"
Snow simply agreed.
"Was that Emma?!" David asked pacing the floor clearly upset by his daughter not being home from dinner with her pirate boyfriend.
"She's….uh going to stay at Granny's…with Killian." Snow said hesitantly. While she had accepted the whole Captain Hook and their daughter thing. David not so much, if Emma was dating someone of his choice he still wouldn't like it.
"What?! No. I'm going to pick her up. No way is my daughter staying at her boyfriend's." David goes over to the coat rack and grabs his keys.
"David she is almost 30. You don't need to break that up. I'm pretty sure Killian is her True Love. We have to let them figure this out in their own time. Plus, it's cold outside." Snow pulls David back down onto the couch next to her. "Let me keep you warm." She says kissing him on the cheek.
Killian and Emma wake up the next morning tangled around each other under piles of blankets. They stayed up all night; talking, keeping each other warm, and just loving each other.
"Love, if you wanted to stay the night so bad you didn't have to put on that act." Killian says when he sees her stir in his arms.
She just rolls her eyes and says "Breakfast?"
When the couple is downstairs in the diner, eating breakfast; Ruby heads over to their table with refills on the cocoa "Same clothes as yesterday and an 11:30 breakfast…about damn time! Granny you owe me a twenty!"
